What have you been doing in game just for the sheer fun of it?

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Sure, most of us are working (hard to call it work when you love driving though) our way through career mode, trying to get all Gold, finish all the Goodwood stuff, etc. But what about when you say to hell with progression, I just want to have fun?

There is, unfortunately, this real lack of structured Rally content in GT6. I love Rally. To me it's the motor sport that defines what car control is really all about. So I bought a bunch of Rally cars and I've been running Arcade mode races and time trials on the various Dirt/Snow courses but Chamonix has shined as being just stupid fun. The snow is quiet so you don't have this constant tire squeal and then there are the drifts that last for days! My fave feature of the track is this insane, steep straight downhill section that ends in this massive banked high speed sweeping right hand turn that empties into a slight right left and uphill straight into a near 90 degree right hander. When you come down that hill and into the banked sweeper at 150mph+, four wheel drifting, flowing into the uphill left, braking, turning the car broadside to power through the sharp right, nailing it all, you will have the biggest grin on your face! I know I sure do when I pull it off. :)

Sark
 
Go to Tokyo, Smash into the tires in turn 1, watch them go flying everywhere, and then proceed to try to hit them as far down the course as I can...If I get one all the way around to the finish line I force myself to stop. may take 30 laps or more so thats enough effing off. Basically anything I can smash down the track, cones, markers, those big orange wall things, ect. I will just slam into them hitting my brakes and watch them fly. It's funny to watch other cars smash into them when they land in the middle of the track too.

Axe
 
Just repeating random events for fun with different cars, buying new cars, taking pictures of those cars and grinding the RedBull Jr. Championship to recover money and enjoy the car's sound. Rinse and repeat.

... As a Gran Turismo fan, I hate to say this but this game is getting old pretty quick. I feel like I've had it for a couple of years, yet it hasn't been a month since I bought it :(
 
More often than not I use the Deltawing in time trials and arcade races, mainly to learn and master its unique driving style.
 
Sarkazmo
That is hilarious! :)Sark
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You have got to try it. Tokyo has a bunch of movable junk, especially those big orange walls. So right by the second to last turn before the road narrows i try to push like 5 or 6 in the way, reverse, wait for the pack and watch the mayhem ensue.

HuskyGT
... As a Gran Turismo fan, I hate to say this but this game is getting old pretty quick. I feel like I've had it for a couple of years, yet it hasn't been a month since I bought it :(
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Go to Tokyo and smash stuff. But I agree. I have had the game, for this my third day, and I am already 22% complete, i haven't bought any cars, not two(I had to buy the first one). Remember the days of 3 or 4 when it felt like you were never going to see 50% completion.
 
AXEofGOD
You have got to try it. Tokyo has a bunch of movable junk, especially those big orange walls. So right by the second to last turn before the road narrows i try to push like 5 or 6 in the way, reverse, wait for the pack and watch the mayhem ensue.



Go to Tokyo and smash stuff. But I agree. I have had the game, for this my third day, and I am already 22% complete, i haven't bought any cars, not two(I had to buy the first one). Remember the days of 3 or 4 when it felt like you were never going to see 50% completion.
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I was surprised when I saw my stats today. 95%!! And I bought the game like three weeks ago. The game is fun as any Gran Turismo and there is something that always makes you go back. But right now I think the game is too young. I hope we get extra content in the near future to keep things interesting.

I think GT5 spoiled us a bit with the Seasonal Events. At least once a week we felt like we had something new to do.
 
HuskyGT
I hope we get extra content in the near future to keep things interesting. I think GT5 spoiled us a bit with the Seasonal Events. At least once a week we felt like we had something new to do.
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Yeah, but I'm old School, I want 95-100% of the content to be on the disc i purchase. If I don't like something they do in an update I won't update it, thus losing my ability to go online with the game and screwing myself out of that extra content, all because I'm a stubborn S.o.B. I am just shocked that I haven't purchased a single additional car and have racked up 20%, I miss spoke earlier, but i still have one moon mission and two goodwoods to do, This aston martin(Goodwood3.2) is killing me. Stupid understeer. It's been like 20 minutes. I really need to get my act together. Also the ghost car is messing with me. Maybe I'll back out and come back in, I just need to shave .282 off.

EDIT: Crushed it by .934 On to Goodwood 3.3
 
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I like taking normal road cars especially the old muscle cars into events against race cars and staying about 100-150 pp below the limit then try to win while driving clean (ish) ;)

For example a 500PP Cougar XR7 in the 15 minute Nurburgring race against those DTM, GT and LM cars. The McClaren is a tough one to catch and even harder to stay in front of
 
Drag race. FXX with 1138 HP. O_o 0-60 in under 3 seconds. 0-200 in 11 seconds. 292 MPH by 3000 Meters. Also, when I feel stupid, take a Pink Corvette and drive backwards (literally). I also look for glitches in tracks and cars.
 
Finding top speed on Route X in Like the Wind... jumping EVERY SINGLE BUMP offroad at Willow. Melting tires on anything that will produce smoke for pics... cruising old muscle like I would irl... and lately amusing myself with a super wheelie beetle and mega-rollover midget.

I get pretty juvenile when bored.

Oh and all this talk of "deteriorating rigidity"? You know I've never noticed it cause a single issue with one of my cars. If anything fixing it after I've broken it seems to make them slower LOL! But I don't really tune either. Just jump in and go.

I gotta go check out Tokyo now :P
 
smskeeter23
I gotta go check out Tokyo now :P
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Yes you do. Turn 1 has the tires. Turn two has the wall things. Then after the chicane are more wall things and on the right hand side before the road narrows for last bit of turns there are these huge white box things, they are the best to put in people's way and sit back and watch. They are also on the last turn. Hilarity at it's finest.
 
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Time trails at Daytona to see how I stack up against times posted from the Roar Before the 24 in more or less equal cars.

Supercar time trails at the Ring, create a top ten leader board for street cars under realistic conditions.

A casual rally using the '08 WRC cars. Do one lap at each track and keep a running time for each car. Cars that "win" a stage start first on the next track (the Ford Focus leads the Subaru by 6/10's after 8 tracks).

Been meaning to go online so I can start testing fuel and tire wear with different car types. Would just run my own endurance races in arcade mode, but someone PD didn't think giving me a choice on what I wanted to do was worth it.
 
Time Trials.

I pick one track and post a time in the first car, then select another car and post it's best time, then select another car etc...

Once a car is on the leader board, I cannot use it again until it drops off, as I do not want to see the same car listed more than once.

I actually wish that there was an option to only allow each car to appear once on the leader board. That way I can try to use the same car to move from 2nd to 1st, rather than have that car appear on the list as 1st and 3rd.
 
GTCam
Time Trials.

I pick one track and post a time in the first car, then select another car and post it's best time, then select another car etc...

Once a car is on the leader board, I cannot use it again until it drops off, as I do not want to see the same car listed more than once.

I actually wish that there was an option to only allow each car to appear once on the leader board. That way I can try to use the same car to move from 2nd to 1st, rather than have that car appear on the list as 1st and 3rd.
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I do the same exact thing.

I have a crap load of car magazines (R&T, C&D, MT etc) in my bathroom. I am a self proclaimed, professional shi**er. I poop a lot. So that leaves me with lots of reading time. Last article I read was a triple threat match. 2013 Ford Focus ST vs Mazdaspeed 3 vs VW Golf GTI. After reading articles like these, I get so amped. I squeeze out the rest of the poop, clean my self, and run to my ps3 like a fat kid after the ice cream truck. Then I do my own comparisons and re create the rewrite the artice in my journal. Which has a lock, so that nobody can snoop around.
 
GTO_VR4
I do the same exact thing.

I have a crap load of car magazines (R&T, C&D, MT etc) in my bathroom. I am a self proclaimed, professional shi**er. I poop a lot. So that leaves me with lots of reading time. Last article I read was a triple threat match. 2013 Ford Focus ST vs Mazdaspeed 3 vs VW Golf GTI. After reading articles like these, I get so amped. I squeeze out the rest of the poop, clean my self, and run to my ps3 like a fat kid after the ice cream truck. Then I do my own comparisons and re create the rewrite the artice in my journal. Which has a lock, so that nobody can snoop around.
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I'm sure your journal will be secure, if you detail your thought process on the throne, as above; not sure who would want to read that! - haha :)

But cool, that Ford Vs Mazda Vs VW is now on the cards.
 
What I'm doing now I've finished career and whilst I'm waiting for new content.

I'm picking 3 road and race cars from a category. E.g. Muscle cars, hot hatchbacks, GT500, GT3 etc.

Then I'm choosing a few different real world circuits and seeing which is the fastest around each of them. Noting it all down on a spreadsheet.

It's helping me toward the Autobarmy trophy and then I will have platinum.
 
I am currently writing down which cars I will be testing in the near future. The criteria I have so far are that they must be stock with oil change, road legal, premium, newer than 2008 (unless they are new to GT6 or a classic such as the Ferraris and Lamborghinis or unless I just decide I want to drive it). I have 7 circuits lined up as the test circuits which also have strict lap numbers I can run and will soon get to practicing on them ready for the testing. Then like SVT Cobra GT I will be recording it in a spreadsheet(which is ready) and this will calculate bhp/ton and average speed over the fastest lap.
 
Tier 2 Racing
A casual rally using the '08 WRC cars. Do one lap at each track and keep a running time for each car. Cars that "win" a stage start first on the next track (the Ford Focus leads the Subaru by 6/10's after 8 tracks).
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Wow, I'm not the only! May I recommend adding the rest of them to the bunch as well? Used to do this quite a lot in GT4, 2 of each car would run the courses in normal as well as reverse, add up the times, find a winner of that rally, rinse and repeat. Peugeot Driver 2 took the driver title, but Subaru (for obvious reasons) won the manufacturer championship. I should definitely do that again :)

On the topic of things I do in GT6 when I'm bored, I like to actually try to pace a race in arcade mode. The problem is, the AI acts pretty much like your average online racer: they're blind as heck and wreck it every time. I did have one succesful pace, though, with ~500PP cars at Nürburgring. Safety car going into the pits and the racers going back to normal ended up looking quite well.
 
Every car I buy, win or acquire gets put on to sports medium tyres and I run a clean lap around the Nordschleife in time trial.

My plan is get a time for every car (Unable to use karts unfortunately) and currently have around 108 cars completed.

This should keep me going some time.

Have already completed career and seasonals so just concentrating on this until more events come out.
 
I make replicas and only drive them when I go online. I never use my stock cars unless needed (career mode, special online races.) I still do love the stock cars though.
 
I think Special Stage Rout 5 only makes one appearance in career mode, and only in its shortened form, and it's one of my favorite tracks so I'll go over there in arcade mode and do some races in a variety of cars. It's one of the few opportunities to use soft racing tires so everything handles like an X2014 Junior lol.

Speaking of the X2014 Junior, I've done that series a bunch of times. It's for money sure but those cars are a blast to drive, especially on the last 3 tracks. That big 180 degree right-hander on Rome at full throttle in 4th gear always makes me say "Whee!" :lol:
 
Kount_Ersteer
I either drift, try to improve my license test times, or buy cars and paint and throw rims on 'em.
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Just keep in mind that there's a serious bug with the aftermarket rims that causes the rear tires to be the same width as the front tires which typically destroys the handling of the car making it very prone to overstreer as well as feeling twitchy. There's a dedicated thread for this subject so I'm only mentioning it here.

Sark
 

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